Traveling fronts in an array of coupled symmetric bistable units

Chaos

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 812-823

  Pazó, Diego ^a,b   Pérez Muñuzuri, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

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EID: 0141678064     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1586511     Document Type: Article

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